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AllAfrica’s Melissa Britz sat down with IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Ephraim Nkonya to discuss how governance can have an impact on land use in Africa. Said Nkonya: “We should start with governance first, to improve policies so that the people who are land…

Global food prices are at a six-year low, but American shoppers may want to check out why that isn’t leading to lower totals at the grocery store. Joseph Glauber, IFPRI senior research fellow and former chief economist at the U.S. Agriculture Department, told…

Half of the planet’s population is malnourished—and that’s why the Global Nutrition Report is a critical tool for global leaders in their fight to combat hunger and malnutrition. In an article in The Guardian that described the report as “a wake-up call for…

IFPRI Research Fellow Devesh Roy published an op-ed in The Economic Times on consumer knowledge of food safety. “As of now, consumers do not know what is ‘safe food’ and how and where to get it,” he wrote. “Hence, the government needs to create a credible…

IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Akhter Ahmed was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article about how Bangladesh—once associated with hunger and malnutrition—has become a food basket and a model for hunger reduction. Ahmed added that although “Bangladesh can…

Harvest Plus associate research fellow Monica Jain was quoted in the Guardian’s Global Development Professionals Network saying that one way to improve nutrition among adolescent girls was to challenge stereotypes. “Adolescent girls should be thought of for…

Researchers from Harvest Plus, coordinated by IFPRI, found that Vitamin A-enriched orange sweet potatoes can reduce the severity and prevalence of diarrhea, which claims more than 350,000 lives of children under five in Africa every year. The story was carried…

June 15, 2015, Washington, D.C.—While Africa south of the Sahara has made substantial improvements to its food security in recent years, one in four people in the region remains undernourished. A new web portal launched today that focuses on agriculture, food…

The Washington Post turned to IFPRI for answers about popularly-quoted statistics on women’s contributions to global food production and land ownership. “This is a zombie fact, and it never dies,” IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Agnes Quisumbing told the Post’s…

IFPRI’s Mark Rosegrant, director of the Environment and Production Technology Division, told The Wall Street Journal that investment in both infrastructure and agricultural research is pivotal for Indonesia to continue its growth in food security. Rosegrant…

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan is talking about agriculture in China—and Reuters is listening. Fan said China’s leaders must stop paying farmers artificially high prices for grain if they want to mitigate the financial burden that comes with stockpiling…

Eating more chicken and less beef can be one way to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to climate change. IFPRI Research Fellow Timothy S. Thomas discusses in The Huffington Post how climate-smart eating—reducing beef consumption for…

In this January 2015 piece in The Guardian, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Lawrence Haddad discusses how extreme poverty won’t be eradicated without the decline of global inequality levels. Haddad uses the book he co-edited, “Growth Is Dead, Long Live Growth…

May 26, 2015, Washington, D.C. -- Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa will have to double, triple, or even quadruple their investment in agricultural research and development to meet the targets recommended by the United Nations, according to…

May 18, 2015, Washington D.C.–A new study has found that pearl millet bred to be richer in iron was able to reverse iron deficiency in school-aged Indian children in six months. In just four months, iron levels improved significantly.